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Gregory E. Webb is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans primarily the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable contribution to subfields such as Ecology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine and fisheries research, Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Marine animal studies overview.

Recent publications by Gregory E. Webb include:

  • Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography
  • The effects of rubble mobilisation on coral fragment survival, partial mortality and growth, 2020, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Spatiotemporal variation of rare earth elements from river to reef continuum aids monitoring of terrigenous sources in the Great Barrier Reef, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Mechanisms of spur and groove development and implications for reef platform evolution, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Mobilisation thresholds for coral rubble and consequences for windows of reef recovery, 2023, Biogeosciences

Frequent coauthors of Webb include Tania M. Kenyon, Christopher Doropoulos, Daniel Harris, Peter J. Mumby, and Gilbert J. Price.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, with multiple contributions to Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Chemical Geology. Additional work has been published in Limnology and Oceanography as well as the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Rare earth elements in Holocene reefal microbialites: a new shallow seawater proxy

    Gregory E. Webb;Balz S. Kamber

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of Late Devonian reefal carbonates, canning basin, Western Australia: Confirmation of a seawater REE proxy in ancient limestones

    L. D. Nothdurft;G. E. Webb;B. S. Kamber

  • The geochemistry of late Archaean microbial carbonate: Implications for ocean chemistry and continental erosion history

    Balz S Kamber;Gregory E Webb

  • Geological and trace element evidence for a marine sedimentary environment of deposition and biogenicity of 3.45 Ga stromatolitic carbonates in the Pilbara Craton, and support for a reducing Archaean ocean

    Martin J. Van Kranendonk;Gregory E. Webb;Balz S. Kamber

  • Has the REE composition of seawater changed over geological time

    Graham A. Shields;Gregory E. Webb

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of scleractinian coral skeleton during meteoric diagenesis: a sequence through neomorphism of aragonite to calcite

    Gregory E. Webb;Luke D. Nothdurft;Balz S. Kamber;J. T. Kloprogge

  • Was Phanerozoic reef history controlled by the distribution of non-enzymatically secreted reef carbonates (microbial carbonate and biologically induced cement)?

    Gregory E. Webb

  • Geochemistry of late Archaean stromatolites from Zimbabwe: evidence for microbial life in restricted epicontinental seas

    Balz S Kamber;Robert Bolhar;Gregory E Webb

  • Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

    Stephen Wroe;Judith H. Field;Michael Archer;Donald K. Grayson

  • Responses of Quaternary rainforest vertebrates to climate change in Australia

    Scott A. Hocknull;Jian-xin Zhao;Yue-xing Feng;Gregory E. Webb

  • The rare earth element signal in Archaean microbial carbonate: information on ocean redox and biogenicity

    Balz S. Kamber;Gregory E. Webb;Meabh Gallagher

  • Latest Devonian and Early Carboniferous Reefs: Depressed Reef Building After the Middle Paleozoic Collapse

    Gregory E. Webb

  • Cryptic intertidal microbialites in beachrock, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef: implications for the origin of microcrystalline beachrock cement

    Gregory E. Webb;John S. Jell;Julian C. Baker

  • Microstructure of common reef-building coral genera Acropora, Pocillopora, Goniastrea and Porites: constraints on spatial resolution in geochemical sampling

    Luke D. Nothdurft;Gregory E. Webb

  • Coral skeletal geochemistry as a monitor of inshore water quality.

    Narottam Saha;Gregory E. Webb;Jian-Xin Zhao

  • Earliest diagenesis in scleractinian coral skeletons: implications for palaeoclimate-sensitive geochemical archives

    Luke D. Nothdurft;Gregory E. Webb

  • Modern carbonate ooids preserve ambient aqueous REE signatures

    Fei Li;Fei Li;Gregory E. Webb;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Stephen Kershaw

  • Modern lacustrine microbialites: towards a synthesis of aqueous and carbonate geochemistry and mineralogy

    Anderson A.P. Chagas;Anderson A.P. Chagas;Gregory E. Webb;Robert V. Burne;Robert V. Burne;Gordon Southam

  • Calcite-filled borings in the most recently deposited skeleton in live-collected Porites (Scleractinia) : Implications for trace element archives

    Luke Nothdurft;Gregory Webb;Thor Bostrom;Llewellyn Rintoul

  • The iron isotope composition of microbial carbonate

    Friedhelm von Blanckenburg;Marc Mamberti;Ronny Schoenberg;Balz S. Kamber

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Balz S. Kamber
Balz S. Kamber Queensland University of Technology
Yuexing Feng
Yuexing Feng University of Queensland
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
Stephen Wroe
Stephen Wroe University of New England
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Markes E. Johnson
Markes E. Johnson Williams College
Simon C. George
Simon C. George Macquarie University
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales

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